Discursive representations about Setor de Diversões Sul in the Correio Braziliense Newspaper (1960-1979): Brasília's "bright and dirty nights"
Critical Discourse Analysis. Discourse. Setor de Diversões Sul. Territory. Cities.
In this dissertation, we have as our main objective analyze the discursive representations of the Setor de Diversões Sul de Brasília in texts published by the Correio Braziliense newspaper in the 1960s and 1970s. We investigate the Setor de Diversões Sul, by Lúcio Costa (1957), as an intriguing space for the imagination of Brasilia and disqualified for not corresponding to the intentions of occupation and appropriation manifested in its project (Nunes, 2009; Rezende, 2014). Based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 2003; Vieira; Resende, 2016), we investigate how particular discourses act in the social constitutive dimension of urban territorialities and of sociocultural identities that approach and move away from these territories that compose the cities. For this, we used the categories proposed by van Leeuwen (2008) related to the modes of recontextualization of space in texts, because they allow the study of the representations of urban space-time and its use, which are linked to the symbolism, interests, and control practices of particular social groups. For data generation, we used the National Library Foundation's Digital Archive, focusing on the texts published by Correio Braziliense in the 1960s and 1970s, which are considered the periods of rise and decline of this commercial center. This study is justified by the position that the media assumes in public opinion, by mediating and publicizing the events of life in the city based on discourses aligned with the dominant political forces and social control.